Seahawks Trade Outside Linebacker Darrell Taylor To Bears

The Seahawks traded outdoors linebacker Darrell Taylor to the Chicago Bears on Friday, receiving a 2025 sixth-round choose in return.

Taylor, a 2020 second-round choose, has appeared in 49 video games with 13 begins over the previous three seasons after lacking his rookie season as a result of a leg harm sustained throughout his faculty profession at Tennessee. Over these three seasons, Taylor recorded 91 tackles, 22 tackles for loss and 21.5 sacks, together with 9.5 in 2022 to tie for the staff lead with Uchenna Nwosu.

Moreover, the Seahawks signed cornerback Willie Roberts, bringing again a participant they launched final weekend.

Taylor had been a part of an out of doors linebacker rotation that features Nwosu, Dre’Mont Jones, who’s making the transfer to outdoors linebacker beneath a brand new teaching workers, Boye Mafe and Derick Corridor, in addition to undrafted rookies Nelson Ceaser, Jamie Sheriff and Sundiata Anderson.

The commerce is the second made by the Seahawks in as many days after they acquired linebacker Michael Barrett on Thursday in a commerce that despatched cornerback Michael Jackson to Carolina.

Roberts, an undrafted rookie out of Louisiana Tech, took half in Seattle’s rookie minicamp as a tryout participant. A semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, Roberts began all 12 video games for Louisiana Tech final fall, and ranked ninth nationally with 12 passes defensed whereas additionally including 38 tackles, one interception, one pressured fumble and a fumble restoration. A primary-team All-Convention USA choice, Roberts held opponents to a 34.8 % completion proportion when focused, in line with Professional Soccer Focus.